Acquisition of Geophysical Computing Facility, University of Colorado/CIRES

0733354希恩这笔赠款用于支持科罗拉多大学地质科学系地球动力学计算设施的升级。 该设施将支持教师安妮希恩，克雷格琼斯和彼得莫尔纳和他们的学生的研究，在地震学和地球动力学的数值计算，旨在了解地壳结构和地幔动力学。 该设施还将支持Lang Farmer教授及其学生的地球化学建模工作。 研究将包括对内华达州造山带根部岩石圈结构和动力学的地震学调查、对地幔矿物晶体学取向的地震学研究以阐明地幔对流动力学、以及对与印度-欧亚大陆碰撞有关的地壳变形的研究等。 计算设备将促进研究生的研究，需要先进的数值食谱。

0733354SheehanThis grant supports an upgrade to geodynamics computing facility in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. The facility will support the research of faculty members Anne Sheehan, Craig Jones and Peter Molnar and their students for numerical calculations in seismology and geodynamics aimed at understanding crustal structure and mantle dynamics. The facility will also support the geochemical modeling efforts of Professor Lang Farmer and his students. Studies will include seismological investigation of the structure and dynamics of lithosphere at the root of Sierra Nevada orogen, seismic studies of the crystallographic orientation of mantle minerals to elucidate mantle convective dynamics, and studies of crustal deformation associated with the Indian-Eurasian continental collision, to name a few. The computational equipment will promote graduate student research requiring advanced numerical recipes.***